Sr. Integration Engineer Jobs

At Thrivent, we are focused on a digital transformation that will deliver modern, innovative experiences for our clients, financial advisors, and employees. We are investing in data and technology, using DevOps practices, and building an engineering culture of empowered technical experts. Our technologists are involved in work that includes cloud native development, digital architecture and integration, automation, cloud data platforms, artificial intelligence, and machine learning as well as maximizing platforms such as Salesforce, AWS and Microsoft.
Enterprise Integration is a key part of Thrivent’s strategy to provide reliable, scalable, reusable and consistent experiences across the organization. As a Sr Engineer you will be considered a technical expert in building, testing, implementing, and maintaining new and existing APIs and integrations. You should be an expert with Mini/Micro service Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture, and Event Driven Architecture. You should be an expert in developing APIs leveraging REST, SOAP, JMS, AMQP, and Kafka protocols, and be able to provide architectural, engineering, and best practice guidance and mentoring to more junior team members engineers across the organization. This includes providing design recommendations based on long-term IT organization strategy and expertise regarding the integration of applications across the business.
At the Sr. Engineer level, you will determine specifications, plan, design, and develop business critical software solutions, utilizing appropriate software engineering processes - either individually or in concert with product team. The successful candidate will have demonstrated effectiveness in technologies such as Springboot, Kafka, GraphQL, DynamoDB and be eager to learn more.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Designing Solutions

• Ability to work and problem solve independently on initiatives that align to the broader software engineering strategy
• Apply technical knowledge to drive outcomes for customers

Developing Software

• Experienced developing APIs leveraging REST, SOAP, JMS, AMQP, and Kafka
• Experienced with technologies such as Springboot, GraphQL, and DynamoDB
• Consistent and dependable in delivering core software that delivers outcomes and meets/exceeds the teams expectations for stability, scalability, resilience, etc.
• Member of team that can work independently, as well as collaboratively with team, in developing core software for the product that delivers outcomes.

Learning and Applying New Techniques

• Shares new ideas and techniques with team; Encourages junior engineers to invest in learning as a part of their job.

Collaborating within the Team

• Participate in product planning and implementation. Helps team to understand and decompose work
• Participate in team’s collaboration sessions to provide technical expertise to solve a problem/remove technical roadblocks for the team

Defining Engineering Standards and Patterns

• Contribute to develop engineering practices, templates and frameworks in collaboration with the team.

DevOps

• Promote and expand on the use of the CI/CD pipeline to improve the deployment and build process.
• Continuously assessing technology to build more stable, scalable, and resilient software; Use data to measure progress
• Participates in the team support rotation and provides expert knowledge on focus subsystems.

Selecting & Managing Technology Vendors

• Participate in proof of concept / technology along with the vendor
• Contribute to define the selection criteria for selecting the right technology vendors .

Coaching Engineers

• Provide technical expertise and help the team to solve technical/software issues
• Provide domain expertise on software products in their area to junior engineers to help them learn/grow their skills and contribute as part of the team
• Provide trainings to the junior developers and groom them
• Provide guidance to junior engineers to help them learn foundational software engineering skills

Recruiting/Building Talent

• Supports and/or develops an environment in which Thrivent employees and colleagues are focused on continuous improvement, exceptional employee engagement, and an unwavering commitment to our clients. Shapes and/or supports a culture that represents the Thrivent purpose, promise and values, ensuring that Thrivent’s trust and reputation remain strong with its clients.
• Participate in the interview process or be part of the panel to recruit the right talent to the team
• Engage in the tech community to build the Thrivent technology brand and position as the employer of choice in the market
• Contribute to the recruitment to define the structure of the interview process to hire the right talent to the team.
• Models Thrivent’s leadership competencies – courage, collaboration, and commitment by demonstrating resiliency, working together to make the best decisions, and holding yourself and others accountable.

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:

Required:

• Expertise in debugging code and/or complex log files for troubleshooting and analysis of product defects
• Perform code reviews with associate team members
• Sound knowledge of version and revision control practices and procedures
• 7+ years of experience in engineering environments, taking abstract concepts and ideas and formulating a detailed software engineering plan to deliver
• Sound knowledge of systems design concepts that provide security and stability
• Sound knowledge of industry standard Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) practices
• Expert knowledge/experience with querying databases for complex data lookup/update
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience

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